If you have ever had a massive number of images you needed quickly and accurately resized for export, upload to web or any other reason, you may well be familiar with the concept of recording Photoshop Actions. These beautiful little tools allow you to literally record a macro (series of user actions) that can then be applied to the currently active document. Further, when combined with the “bulk” feature of Photoshop, you can apply this action to an entire directory and apply the action to each and every image, exporting the resulting image to a specified location as well. Overall, this is an extremely useful tool and can save minutes — if not hours — of work, but it has one tiny limitation that has been a bane to me for some time. When recording an action, you must specify either a height or a width on resize: there is no way to conditionally apply your length to the height OR width dependent upon ratio. Enter the Photoshop Script.
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